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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package android.hardware.media.c2@1.0;
+
+import android.hardware.graphics.bufferqueue@1.0::IGraphicBufferProducer;
+
+import IConfigurable;
+
+/**
+ * Input surface for a Codec2 component.
+ *
+ * An <em>input surface</em> is an instance of `IInputSurface`, which may be
+ * created by calling IComponentStore::createInputSurface(). Once created, the
+ * client may
+ *   1. write data to it via the `IGraphicBufferProducer` interface; and
+ *   2. use it as input to a Codec2 encoder.
+ *
+ * @sa IInputSurfaceConnection, IComponentStore::createInputSurface(),
+ *     IComponent::connectToInputSurface().
+ */
+interface IInputSurface {
+    /**
+     * Returns the producer interface into the internal buffer queue.
+     *
+     * @return producer `IGraphicBufferProducer` instance. This must not be
+     * null.
+     */
+    getGraphicBufferProducer() generates (IGraphicBufferProducer producer);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the @ref IConfigurable instance associated to this input surface.
+     *
+     * @return configurable `IConfigurable` instance. This must not be null.
+     */
+    getConfigurable() generates (IConfigurable configurable);
+};
+